Chatsats חָצַץ

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Chatsats (Hebrew חָצַץ, Strong's H2686) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to divide”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to divide
1a) (Qal) to divide
1b) (Piel) to divide
1c) (Pual) to be cut off, be finished

2) to shoot arrows
2a) (Piel) archer (participle)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	archers (1), midst (1), bands (1)
BSB	singers (1), has run out (1), formation (1)

Every verse with Chatsats, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Judges 5:11
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:

Job 21:21
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).